No. I did search. If you would have read the question, you would have known that I didn't know what I was looking for. I've never bought a CD/DVD duplicator. I don't know what makes a good one.
Why must everyone assume that I'm trying to copy pirated software? I'm just trying to keep my backups alive and well for years to come, not make a buck off of someone else's labor.
Since I've read articles about CD rot, wouldn't you assume that I've read articles about the recent busts around the world in regards to pirated software? Why on Earth would I want to pirate software?
No. Actually I was just trying to find a solution to make backups of my backups in the case of them going bad. I have 100's of CDRs. Basically it's everything that I've ever downloaded or created. Plus, I have my entire CD collection in digital format. I also belonged to Emusic for a year while at college, so I have tons and tons of music from them as well.
It now looks like it would just make more sense to purchase a 50-75 dollar CDRW drive and just burn the shit out of it.
This is why I would love to live in a big city. Not only would I get to play Pacman on a Saturday afternoon, but I would have onlookers saying shit like, "Man. That guy is going to fuck pacman up." Like in the second video.
Isn't it funny that something like this, in the past, would have not been considered terrorism? This was just a prank that went too far. It wasn't fair to the police for getting the prank to their 911 line. Their business line, yes, but not the emergency line. Does anyone think this have a different outcome if he had it go to their "business" line instead?
Also, I have seen others say the script relied on the stupidity of the person's foes. The guy had no motive to do anything after the fact, so how did it endanger public safety? Shouldn't the police be able to handle a few false calls to their emergency system? You think that prank calls to 911, as sad as they are, would be built into the equation of deciding how many people they need on shift in order to cover their district.
I guess this is just another overreaction by our lovely government.
If you have to IM your family members to find out what they want for dinner, then you, my friend, have a sad family.
Not only would this break down the barriers between family members, but it will ruin your communication links and skills. Remember, emotions cannot be portrayed through text.
The problems that I see with that model is that it is LEGAL for me to download a song I already own, so why would I be charged again for the same song?
Also, how will songs that are not copyrighted or are free to trade on P2P networks going to differ from those that aren't?
Personally, I think that more services like Emusic need to open up. I mean, we are the Internet generation, so why not market it to us like that?
I agree. If they get rid of the screeners, then they lose the potential to gain awesome word-of-mouth advertising. I know a lot of films that I have enjoyed were only found through a few people I know from other people who screen movies.
It's a great way to find the needle in the haystack.
I don't think the question should be about the suitability (rock, a made up word!) of the Internet, but rather the usability. The article spoke about the government's involvement with the Internet. I think that this should be the top priority of each government because, due to our population, need to have some kind of connection with everyone in the country.
Imagine the democratic practice if every morning you had an e-mail, for which you had to read or be taxed for not exercising your right to vote, that spoke about the bills and laws currently on the table for a vote.
And that's just one of my ideas regarding the government and the Internet.
So actually, like I said before, I wouldn't worry about how much pr0n is available online, but rather if everyone knows how to search on Google and find the sites they want to find.
I hate reading about parents that are quick to blame others for their child's actions. I agree with the poster, the parents should actually pay attention to what their children are doing. For example, how did they sneak off with a gun to go play GTA on I-40? Aren't their guns locked up and only the parents have the key?
Perhaps were focusing on the wrong problem. Maybe we should pay more attention to the parents.
I have some Verbatim CD-R's, both data and audio formats, from 1999 that still work to this day. I don't know what brand this study used, but I haven't had a problem with Vertaim or any of the other "expensive" CD-Rs.
It is a cool little web site that you can write to each member of the government with a few simple mouse clicks.
I just got done writing my Reps and Senators in Indiana regarding this "model law" to see what they thought of it, if they plan to implement something like this soon in Indiana, and how I am strongly opposed to any such legislation. I suggest that everyone follows my lead so you can hear for yourself how your government feels about this matter.
After looking through their web site and reading what is actually contained inside of this OS, I am actually curious enough to download it and give it a look-see.
It has everything that everyone would need in an OS, plus a lot more. That's one thing that I love about Linux. It comes of literally hundreds of applications to get your jobs done quickly and easily.
Now one of the best attributes of this distribution was mentioned in the description of the story; a free online-rpm based installer. Lindows wants you to pay money for access to their dump of RPMs, but not Lycoris. Also included are media players for almost every type of media (including TV tuner cards), the ability to burn CDs, a full office suite, nice "control panel", an update-wizard, built in firewall, and a recovery mode. What more could you ask for in a "general" Linux distro!? Plus it looks nice!
I actually had the privilege of having someone from Google come to my college campus and show us "around" the Google facilities and it is actually quite amazing. He also talked about their purpose; to be the best search engine out there without the fluff. And that is exactly what they are doing.
Just curious about this post and its purpose. Will someone, after this post is frozen, gather all of the suggestions and then create these kits for download?
Now I agree with including Regmon and Filemon from this great company, but also I would include Process Explorer (Gives you access to process like the Task Manager for Win2K for non NT machines), Portmon (Allows the monitoring of the serial and parallel ports, which can be useful to debug printers and the like), and PsTools (remote administrating through the command line).
As far as a bootable OS to put in the kit, I would recommend Knoppix since it has several utilities built in just for data/computer recovery.
Actually I live in a decent size city, Lafayette, and we have a newstand that has adult material in plain site without anything prohibiting the view. The city doesn't raise a stink because people know of the material in the store, so all of the censoring is actually done by the parents, not the store owner or the government.
Great. All we need are more DLLs on the hard drive and increase the chances of DLL rot.
DLL rot, for those who may not know what it is, is when Windows, for some reason or another, let's a file rot away on the hard disk causing programs that use that DLL to stop working properly all of the time. Most of the time this can be fixed by copying the affected DLL from the installation and overwriting the current one. I don't see why they don't just enforce reverse compatibility for DLLs or allow a technology like symbolic linking in Linux. That would cure all of the problems.
I wonder if more game companies along with other software games will follow suit and try to give incentives for actually buying a game, instead of just trying some half-ass attempt at copy-protecting the CD?
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No. I did search. If you would have read the question, you would have known that I didn't know what I was looking for. I've never bought a CD/DVD duplicator. I don't know what makes a good one.
Why does everyone assume I'm doing something illegal? I just want to keep my CD archive alive!
I thought it was a cry for help regarding possible data loss because of the horrible reliability of CD-Rs.
Why must everyone assume that I'm trying to copy pirated software? I'm just trying to keep my backups alive and well for years to come, not make a buck off of someone else's labor.
Since I've read articles about CD rot, wouldn't you assume that I've read articles about the recent busts around the world in regards to pirated software? Why on Earth would I want to pirate software?
No. Actually I was just trying to find a solution to make backups of my backups in the case of them going bad. I have 100's of CDRs. Basically it's everything that I've ever downloaded or created. Plus, I have my entire CD collection in digital format. I also belonged to Emusic for a year while at college, so I have tons and tons of music from them as well.
It now looks like it would just make more sense to purchase a 50-75 dollar CDRW drive and just burn the shit out of it.
This is why I would love to live in a big city. Not only would I get to play Pacman on a Saturday afternoon, but I would have onlookers saying shit like, "Man. That guy is going to fuck pacman up." Like in the second video.
This is truly priceless.
Isn't it funny that something like this, in the past, would have not been considered terrorism? This was just a prank that went too far. It wasn't fair to the police for getting the prank to their 911 line. Their business line, yes, but not the emergency line. Does anyone think this have a different outcome if he had it go to their "business" line instead?
Also, I have seen others say the script relied on the stupidity of the person's foes. The guy had no motive to do anything after the fact, so how did it endanger public safety? Shouldn't the police be able to handle a few false calls to their emergency system? You think that prank calls to 911, as sad as they are, would be built into the equation of deciding how many people they need on shift in order to cover their district.
I guess this is just another overreaction by our lovely government.
If you have to IM your family members to find out what they want for dinner, then you, my friend, have a sad family.
Not only would this break down the barriers between family members, but it will ruin your communication links and skills. Remember, emotions cannot be portrayed through text.
The problems that I see with that model is that it is LEGAL for me to download a song I already own, so why would I be charged again for the same song?
Also, how will songs that are not copyrighted or are free to trade on P2P networks going to differ from those that aren't?
Personally, I think that more services like Emusic need to open up. I mean, we are the Internet generation, so why not market it to us like that?
I agree. If they get rid of the screeners, then they lose the potential to gain awesome word-of-mouth advertising. I know a lot of films that I have enjoyed were only found through a few people I know from other people who screen movies.
It's a great way to find the needle in the haystack.
I don't think the question should be about the suitability (rock, a made up word!) of the Internet, but rather the usability. The article spoke about the government's involvement with the Internet. I think that this should be the top priority of each government because, due to our population, need to have some kind of connection with everyone in the country.
Imagine the democratic practice if every morning you had an e-mail, for which you had to read or be taxed for not exercising your right to vote, that spoke about the bills and laws currently on the table for a vote.
And that's just one of my ideas regarding the government and the Internet.
So actually, like I said before, I wouldn't worry about how much pr0n is available online, but rather if everyone knows how to search on Google and find the sites they want to find.
It's funny that so many things that you think should be public domain or should be at least not-for-profit, are?
I never would have imagined the Dewey Decimal System was patented and that libraries have pay money, each year, to use it in their library.
I hate reading about parents that are quick to blame others for their child's actions. I agree with the poster, the parents should actually pay attention to what their children are doing. For example, how did they sneak off with a gun to go play GTA on I-40? Aren't their guns locked up and only the parents have the key?
Perhaps were focusing on the wrong problem. Maybe we should pay more attention to the parents.
I wonder if this Dutch study used those cheap CD-R's that have the silver front and no brand name anywhere on the CD itself.
I have some Verbatim CD-R's, both data and audio formats, from 1999 that still work to this day. I don't know what brand this study used, but I haven't had a problem with Vertaim or any of the other "expensive" CD-Rs.
I suggest that everyone checks out Congress.org.
It is a cool little web site that you can write to each member of the government with a few simple mouse clicks.
I just got done writing my Reps and Senators in Indiana regarding this "model law" to see what they thought of it, if they plan to implement something like this soon in Indiana, and how I am strongly opposed to any such legislation. I suggest that everyone follows my lead so you can hear for yourself how your government feels about this matter.
Awesome. I'll have to check that out. Thanks for the information.
After looking through their web site and reading what is actually contained inside of this OS, I am actually curious enough to download it and give it a look-see.
It has everything that everyone would need in an OS, plus a lot more. That's one thing that I love about Linux. It comes of literally hundreds of applications to get your jobs done quickly and easily.
Now one of the best attributes of this distribution was mentioned in the description of the story; a free online-rpm based installer. Lindows wants you to pay money for access to their dump of RPMs, but not Lycoris. Also included are media players for almost every type of media (including TV tuner cards), the ability to burn CDs, a full office suite, nice "control panel", an update-wizard, built in firewall, and a recovery mode. What more could you ask for in a "general" Linux distro!? Plus it looks nice!
I actually had the privilege of having someone from Google come to my college campus and show us "around" the Google facilities and it is actually quite amazing. He also talked about their purpose; to be the best search engine out there without the fluff. And that is exactly what they are doing.
I think that it is actually pretty cool that librarians are doing something like this for their patrons. It shows that they really do care.
Just curious about this post and its purpose. Will someone, after this post is frozen, gather all of the suggestions and then create these kits for download?
ThinkGeek could sell them. Yeah.
Which Sysinternals help you with this task? Normally I just use a Linux boot CD and then get the password that way.
Ooo. That's a good one to bring, common password cracking utilities. One for Windows and Windows screen saver passwords.
Now I agree with including Regmon and Filemon from this great company, but also I would include Process Explorer (Gives you access to process like the Task Manager for Win2K for non NT machines), Portmon (Allows the monitoring of the serial and parallel ports, which can be useful to debug printers and the like), and PsTools (remote administrating through the command line).
As far as a bootable OS to put in the kit, I would recommend Knoppix since it has several utilities built in just for data/computer recovery.
Actually I live in a decent size city, Lafayette, and we have a newstand that has adult material in plain site without anything prohibiting the view. The city doesn't raise a stink because people know of the material in the store, so all of the censoring is actually done by the parents, not the store owner or the government.
Great. All we need are more DLLs on the hard drive and increase the chances of DLL rot.
DLL rot, for those who may not know what it is, is when Windows, for some reason or another, let's a file rot away on the hard disk causing programs that use that DLL to stop working properly all of the time. Most of the time this can be fixed by copying the affected DLL from the installation and overwriting the current one. I don't see why they don't just enforce reverse compatibility for DLLs or allow a technology like symbolic linking in Linux. That would cure all of the problems.
I wonder if more game companies along with other software games will follow suit and try to give incentives for actually buying a game, instead of just trying some half-ass attempt at copy-protecting the CD?